Morning journal and courier., 1887-12-21
DOYLE GETS FIVE YEARS.
The Hartford Murderer Pleads Guilty to Manslaughter-Sad Parting With Ills Children.

The Hartford Murderer Pleads Guilty
 to Manslaughter-Sad Parting With I Ills Children.
 HARTFORD, Dec.20-Thomas Doyle, charged
 with murder in the second degree for kicking l his wife to death, was tried in the Superior court to-day. After State Attorney Hamers-
 ley addressed the court Judge Sanford sen | fenced Doyle to five years in the Connecticut State prison. Doyle received the sentence I without signs of feeling, but immediately
 broke down at the sobs of his two children. 1 They sat alone on the bench in front of the dock with no one to comfort them. Both were crying bitterly. This moved the father, 1 who leaned over the railing and comforted | the sorrowing children. A few minutes later when he was to be removed to the jail he broke down completely. After being hand
 cuffed he kissed the children goodbye, but they followed him out of the court room This latter exhibition of affection caused his pent-up feelings to burst forth in copious tears and the strong man cried like a child. The parting was indeed sad.
 ELEVATED CARS OFF THE TRACK. Am Accident on Sixth Avenue That
 Has Never Happened Before i'm the
 History of the Elevated Roads.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-An uptown train on the Sixth avenue elevated crowded with pas sengers was thrown from the track near the Franklin street station in West Broadway this afternoon. The cars bumped along over the ties and would have fallen into the street but for the fact that at the point where the accident occurred a third track is being put in and timbers to sustain the additional track had been throw across between the tracks on the sides of the street. The de- railed train was therefore sustained by these timbers. The passengers were terribly fright ened and panic-strieken, but no one was hurt. They left the cars and climbed down upon the structure and along it to the Frank lin street station where they descended to the street. Traffic on the road was suspend ed two hours while the train was being re- placed on the track and the damage to the road repaired. The accident is attributed to defective rail- but will not be fully explain ed until an investigation has been made. This is the first time in the history of the roads that cars have entirely left the track so as to be in danger of falling to the street. The officials have always claimed such thing was impossible.
 The Democrats Sweep Meriden.
 MERIDEN, Dec. 20.-In the city election to- day Dr. C.. H. l. Davis, Democrat, was re- e1ecteu mayor anu DoGn DrancneS or the clby government are Democratic for the first time since the incorporation of the city, twenty years ago. Davis plurality over King, Re- publican, is 524. The common council stands 24 Democrats to Republicans, the latter be- ing hold-over men.
 CigarmakIng in Tenement Houses.
 NEW YORK, Dec. 20.-The war between the cigar manufacturers and the cigar makers union over the tenement house ques- tion will be renewed January 1. The manu- facturers are determined to save rent, gas bills and expense of heating factories by mak- ing the employees work at home. The union will make desperate fight against this They will have the backing of the Federation of Labor, which they say is now more pow erful organization than the K. of L., which refuses to recognize the union.